"in a Shanghai tenement who successfully resist the attempts by the owner, a venal Nationalist officer, to evict them. (The film only escaped censorship by the Nationalist authorities because a fake script had been provided. )"
The country may thus be fated to endure yet more political horsetrading and backstabbing— unless and until the entire ruling group of venal politicians is replaced.
In Ghana and Cameroon this has allowed venal village chiefs to steal logging revenues.
Ellis was a venal, sly man.
Yet surplus countries tend to see themselves as virtuous and deficit countries as venal—the implication being that the burden of adjustment should fall on the borrowers.
He laments that the administration has abandoned the high principles that America set with the Nuremberg tribunals, which accorded even the most venal and reprehensible Nazis open and fair trials.
A more obviously venal motive is that green investing is good for the image-unusually, the World Bank publishes the names of investors in its green offerings.
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